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Director: Steven Spielberg
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| 1. Amistad (year: 1997) |
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This Steven Spielberg-directed exploration into a long-ago episode in African-American history recounts the trial that followed the 1839 rebellion abo ...
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| 2. Empire of the Sun (year: 1987) |
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Based on J.G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, Empire of the Sun stars Christian Bale as a spoiled young British boy, living with his wealthy family ...
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| 3. Hook (year: 1991) |
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Steven Spielberg filters J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan through a distinctly 1990s sensibility in Hook. Peter Pan has become Peter Banning (Robin Williams), ...
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| 5. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (year: 1989) |
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The third installment in the widely beloved Spielberg/Lucas Indiana Jones saga begins with an introduction to a younger Indy (played by the late River ...
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| 6. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (year: 1984) |
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The second of the George Lucas/Steven Spielberg Indiana Jones epics is set a year or so before the events in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1984). After a b ...
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| 7. Jaws (year: 1975) |
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Based on Peter Benchley's best-selling novel, Steven Spielberg's 1975 shark saga set the standard for the New Hollywood popcorn blockbuster while frig ...
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| 8. Jurassic Park (year: 1993) |
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Steven Spielberg's phenomenally successful sci-fi adventure thriller is graced by state-of-the-art special effects from the team of Stan Winston, Phil ...
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| 9. Minority Report (year: 2002) |
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Based on a short story by the late Philip K. Dick, this science fiction-thriller reflects the writer's familiar preoccupation with themes of concealed ...
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| 10. Munich (year: 2005) |
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Much as Steven Spielberg followed 1993's special-effects blockbuster Jurassic Park with a far more downbeat and personal project later the same year, ...
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| 11. Raiders of the Lost Ark (year: 1981) |
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Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is no ordinary archeologist. When we first see him, he is somewhere in the Peruvian jungle in 1936, running a booby-trap ...
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| 12. Saving Private Ryan (year: 1998) |
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Steven Spielberg directed this powerful, realistic re-creation of WWII's D-day invasion and the immediate aftermath. The story opens with a prologue i ...
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| 13. Schindler's List (year: 1993) |
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Based on a true story, Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List stars Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, a German businessman in Poland who sees an opportunit ...
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| 14. The Color Purple (year: 1985) |
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Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, The Color Purple spans the years 1909 to 1949, relating the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg) ...
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| 15. The Terminal (year: 2004) |
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Shot almost entirely on a two-and-a-half-story recreation of a full-size operating airport terminal, this romantic comedy from director Steven Spielbe ...
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| 16. War of the Worlds (year: 2005) |
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An ordinary man has to protect his children against alien invaders in this science fiction thriller, freely adapted from the classic story by H.G. Wel ...
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